Agriculture in the U.S. contributes to greenhouse gasses--second only to transportation in this country. Read Michael Pollan's great article on this and other ills of American agriculture/food industry and his solutions of how to change it! Write to Obama/Biden and let them know YOUR ideas of how to change agricultural/food industry practices in the U.S.!

Read the article by Michael Pollan about food in the U.S., how it's grown, how growing it contributes to greenhouse gasses, and how the food industry continues to excerbate the obesity epidemic in the United States. Dr. Pollan, the Knight Professor of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, give solutions to these and other pressing agriculture/food industry problems. He is the author, most recently, of “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto.”

Go to this website and comment about how important it is to select someone to the Cabinet post Secretary of Agriculture who is in favor of REAL change regarding how we grow and process our food and raise our food animals in this country.

Click on any of the agenda items; takes you to a page giving Obama/Biden policies/ideas. On each page is a blue box labeled "Of the People/By the People--Submit your ideas"--just click on it and submit your own ideas!

President-Elect Obama has yet to name a Secretary of Agriculture to his Cabinet. Read the letter from 84 Food Activists who state that the next Sec. of Ag. needs to be someone who will support sustainable agriculture & animal husbandry, renewable energy, farm worker rights, and more.